George Fan has a knack for making weird ideas work for him. His vision of fish that poop money became Insaniquarium, which won ...

We live in an era dominated by the sheer amount of cultural ephemera that passes in and out of our lives. Thirty years ...

I’ve attended my fair share of launch parties for videogames, but I was still surprised when casual game publisher PopCap invited me to ...

I’m in pole position, tensely awaiting for the race to begin. Three sets of red light up – time to get serious. I ...

Walk into most casinos, and you’ll notice a bizarre dichotomy. On one side, you have the carnival atmosphere – rooms full of flashing, ...

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Right on time for Easter, a hefty dose of festive advertising arrived via email from Popcap, a casual games company you may have ...

Read the gaming rags, or listen to those who toil in the industry, and the complaints soon arise: The “crunch” workweeks of 60 ...

Did you snap up games like Company of Heroes, Oblivion and Medieval II: Total War as soon as they were released? Are you ...

If Bookworm Adventures was Popcap’s magnum opus and Peggle was their Plinko, their newest game, Venice, is their Go. Venice is a seemingly ...

PopCap Games built an empire on a legion of casual gamers, feeding simple but addictive titles like Zuma and Bejeweled to a nation ...

Many online game “communities” feel like those housing subdivisions spreading around every American city like carcinomas on a pancreas. I live in one ...